How To Download And Play 'Nohzdyve' The Secret ZX Spectrum Game From 'Bandersnatch'

Bandersnatch is part movie, part interactive story, part video game and just all around crazy. It's a unique choose-your-own-adventure movie that's about a choose-your-own-adventure video game based on a choose-your-own-adventure book. And if that's not enough, it gets into some seriously meta stuff about who controls who, breaking down the fourth wall entirely in some really surprising and interesting ways.

I'll write a review once I've completed the entire thing and gotten all the different endings. I've only found three so far, but that's the fun of something like this. You come back and try again with new choices and see where it all leads. I actually hope that Netflix does this with other stories, not just bizarre Black Mirror stuff. I'd love to play a choose-your-own-adventure fantasy movie/game like this, or something like Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones where you're an explorer and have to make your way through mazes with deadly traps and priceless artifacts. And as much as I did enjoy the meta stuff here, I think this formula could work playing it straight as well.

In any case, on top of the five proper endings, a secret post-credits ending has also been discovered. In this ending, Stefan (Fionn Whitehead) is on the bus but instead of playing a tape he takes out a copy of his game, Bandersnatch. While this is going on you hear some strange noises which internet sleuths somehow recognized as sounds from the ZX Spectrum, an old 8-bit computer that looks like this:

ZX SpectrumSource: Wikipedia

So naturally these intrepid internet sleuths ran the sounds through a ZX Spectrum emulator and discovered it created a QR code. When you scan the QR code it takes you to the fictional website of Tuckersoft to a hidden URL that contains a page for each of the company's fictional games.

Scratch that---most of the game's on the Tuckersoft website are fictional. But now one of the games from Bandersnatch is actually real. It turns out you can download and play the game Nohzdyve (pronounced nose-dive) on an actual ZX Spectrum or ZX Spectrum emulator. How cool is that?

You'll recall this is one of the game's that Colin Ritman (Will Poulter) showed off in Bandersnatch near the beginning of the movie-game.

It takes a while to load. Once it does, use the "O" key to move left and the "P" key to move right. Avoid running into walls and the chomping teeth. You score by running into the little floating jelly fish things. You'll die a lot.